Join us for the second annual XRAY Awards, hosted by Marmoset Music. The XRAY community will gather to celebrate the winners of this year's Radio is Yours Contest and recognize some folks working to advance justice and equity in our hometown with food, drinks, and live music.
TICKETS AND MORE INFORMATION HERE!
EVENT OVERVIEW:
5:00p Doors open for VIP-only cocktail hour with intimate performance by Lenore.
6:30p Doors open for General Admission
7:30p Performance by TBA!!!
8:00p Awards ceremony begins
9:00p Doors open for After Party with Nocturnal Habits and Fred and Toody Cole of Dead Moon
12:00a Party ends
The night will begin with a VIP-only cocktail hour. Our VIP guests will enjoy unlimited drinks, an intimate musical performance (performer TBA), heavy hors d'oeuvres from Chefstable, ¿Por Que No?, and Voodoo Doughnut, a goodie bag with XRAY swag and gifts from our event sponsors, and acknowledgement during the program.
The VIP cocktail hour will be followed by the main program. We'll kick off the night with a performance (musician/comedian TBA) over drinks and finger foods, followed by the awards ceremony. We'll bring to the stage a handful of Portlanders whose work and activism over the past year is deserving of recognition. Then we'll announce the winners of the 2016 Radio is Yours Contest, each of whom will walk away with a cash prize along with a hand-made trophy courtesy of Bobfish Arts.
The party will then continue from 9 pm - midnight with the after party, featuring live performances by 2 bands and XRAY DJs (lineup TBA soon!). There will be free pizza courtesy ofSizzle Pie and drinks available for purchase.
The event is also a fundraiser for XRAY, and there will be opportunities to contribute throughout the night. Thanks to the generosity of our food and beverage sponsors, all drink purchases will directly benefit XRAY. In addition to proceeds from ticket sales, we'll also work toward our fundraising goal with a raffle and paddle raise.
Doors: 8:00 PM
Show: 9:00 PM
21 and over
Portland, OR
Mostly Standing / Limited Seated Balcony
Turn Turn Turn welcomes Dear Nora for her Reunion/Mountain Rock Reiusse show! With Dragging and Ox at Turn Turn Turn. XRAY is proud to co-Sponsor the show. More info on Turn Turn Turn's Website
Girl Fest presents
Girl Fest 2017
Hosted by Blossom
Coco Columbia
Karma Rivera
Neka + Kahlo
Haley Heynderickx
- LOLA'S ROOM at the Crystal Ballroom
- Saturday, January 14, 2017
- 6 p.m. doors, 7 p.m. show |
- $8 advance, $10 day of show |
- All ages welcome
Tickets on sale now!
About Girl Fest 2017
Girl Fest 2017 is proud to return to Lola's Room at the Crystal Ballroom for their 3rd annual event. This one day, festival-style event was founded in 2013 as a way to celebrate the talented, female artists currently making noise in the Northwest. Girl Fest 2017 will be hosted by Blossom, and will include performances by Coco Columbia, Karma Rivera, Neka & Kahlo, Haley Heyndrickx, Courtney Noe and students from My Voice Music's Student Mentorship Program. With a festival-style lineup, Girl Fest 2017 is excited to feature a wild array of genres; everything from hip hop, to alternative, singer songwriter, and pop infused modern jazz. The 2017 event is sponsored byXRAY.fm and Vortex Music Magazine.
About Coco Columbia
Music school dropout, Coco Columbia, burst onto the Portland music scene in 2014. Her music fuses infectious indie-pop melodies, off-kilter rhythmic feels, dreamy-eyed electro-soul soundscapes and jazzy harmony to create her own brand of bumpin' space-age future-pop. Coco has shared the stage with bands such as Hiatus Kaiyote, Goapele, Robert Glasper and Knower.
About Karma Rivera
Freshman to the NW hip hop scene, Karma Rivera has already made quite a name for herself. Since performing as headliner of November's "The Thesis" at Kelly's Olympian, Rivera has been making moves. She's ready to slay on the Girl Fest stage in January, with aggressive hip hop tracks and a style truly all her own.
About Neka + Kahlo
Veterans of Girl Fest 2014, Neka & Kahlo craft vibey music out of a red brick apartment in North Portland. Rather than pushing a limiting trend or sub-genre, the duo serve as an intersection - trafficking in multiple styles and sounds - thereby dispensing with the need for additional labels. What you hear is the expression of their unique experience as humans who refuse to conform to any one identity alone.
About Haley Heynderickx
The voice of Portland artist, Haley Heynderickx (pronounced Hendricks), is distinctly unique, with a sweet power and beauty that makes her music almost familiar to the ear. Her lyricism is raw and true. Reminiscent of the styles of Joni Mitchell, Joanna Newsom and Jessica Pratt, Heynderickx is not one to miss.
About Courtney Noe
"Courtney Noe, Grammy's 2017" is written in red lipstick on her bathroom mirror. "I literally envision myself rising out of the stage in Madison Square Garden before I go to sleep." Courtney's sound embraces the soul of Motown with the additive character of pop. Big band horns, orchestra strings and piano are heard throughout her music; the lyrics dripping with sass.
About My Voice Music
My Voice Music is a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon that engages youth in music and performance in order to promote self-esteem, social skills and emotional expression. MVM's student band opened Girl Fest in 2016, and we are excited to welcome these extraordinarily talented girls back to our stage for the 2017 event!
DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid New Year's Eve Dance Party Extravaganza at the Melody Ballroom.
Saturday, December 31st, 2016
Our biggest New Year's Eve party ever:
A Desi Latino Soundclash on 2 floors!!
Orquestra Pacifico Tropical (Featuring members of Sun Angle, Máscaras, Bitch'n, &&&, IOA, Point Juncture, Wa., Modernstate, Roselit Bone, Quiet Countries & Eagle Sun King.) Orquestra Pacifico Tropical’s wall of sound is dedicated to expanding the music of Central & South America to the people & dance floors of the Pacific Northwest.
Coast2c (Gran Ritmos)
Daniela Karina (Women's Beat League/Bed of Roses)
Michael Bruce (Gran Ritmos)
Suavecito (She Shreds Magazine & Savila)
Bollywood/Cumbia/Bhangra/Dembow/Urban Desi/Reggaeton/Desi Bass/Latin Trap/Tribal Guarachero
Featuring percussionist Adam McCollom on the Panjabi Dhol drum.
Bhangra dances by DJ Anjali and Gulabi Gang.
Two ballrooms on two levels.
Sound by One Wub
Sponsored by XRAY.FM.
21+ only w/ proper ID
This party marks the 16th anniversary of Anjali and The Kid playing in Portland clubs as a duo since their New Year's Eve debut in 2000.
www.anjaliandthekid.com
Quannum MCs!
Featuring Blackalicious, Latyrx, Gift of Gab, Lyrics Born, Lateef Daumont, and Chief Xcel. With specail guests Libretto, Blossom, and DJ Wicked.
Saturday December 31
Star Theater Portland
DOORS AT 8, SHOW AT 9pm / 21+
21+
Additional Info:
QUANNUM MC's (Blackalicious, Latyrx, Gift of Gab, Lyrics Born, Chief Xcel & Lateef) w/ special guests Libretto, Blossom & Dj WickedThis New Year's Eve, come celebrate with Quannum---one of the West Coast's most legendary Hip Hop collectives ever formed---and their long awaited reunion, exclusively at the Star Theater in PDX! Both a label (Quannum Projects) and a collaborative concern, Quannum brought together the brightest talents from the former SoleSides label: Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truth Speaker (from Latyrx), Chief Xcel and Gift of Gab (from Blackalicious), and DJ Shadow. An artist-run label, SoleSides was founded in 1992 at KDVS, the college radio station for the University of California-Davis, with most of the above artists involved, plus mentor DJ Zen (Jeff Chang). Its first release, DJ Shadow's 1993 slab "Entropy," gained a worldwide profile after tastemaker James Lavelle released it on his Mo' Wax label. SoleSides hit with further releases like Blackalicious' Melodica EP (also licensed to Mo' Wax) and the self-titled debut single by Latyrx. By 1997, SoleSides had become Quannum Projects, and the label debuted with a masterstroke, the brilliant collaborative Quannum Spectrum, including a bounty of West Coast underground talent -- Jurassic 5, Divine Styler, Souls of Mischief, and Poets of Rhythm. Quannum Projects continued releasing records, including full-lengths for Blackalicious (NIA) and Poets of Rhythm (Discern/Define), a single by Spectrum contributor Joyo Velarde, and most rewarding of all, the two-disc history lesson SoleSides Greatest Bumps. And now this New Years Eve is your once in a lifetime chance to catch the collective live and direct!
Tickets:
http://www.ticketweb.com/fb/6995585/dantes
Earthquake Hurricane, is about to have our 100th show!
We started in the basement of a bike shop two years with the goal of bringing together Portland's best comics into a super-group and then inviting our favorite comics to showcase with us. We've been lucky enough to welcome some of the best comics in the country stop by our show: Greg Behrendt, Kurt Braunohler, Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist, Solomon Georgio, and many many more. We've played festivals and colleges, and at our new home underneath The Liquor Store, we've continued to showcased the absolute best standup the city has to offer every single week.
For our hundredth showiversary, we've got a jam packed lineup headlined by Gabe Dinger, making his triumphant return from his new home in Los Angeles. Also appearing: Dylan Jenkins (just named one of the Funniest 5), Stephanie Oberto (get to know her, she's going to be huge), and visiting from LA, Becky Robinson (Not Safe with Nikki Glaser).
December 21st
7pm
The Liquor Store (3341 SE Belmont)
$5 suggested
Willamette Week, XRAY.FM and Holocene present: LOCAL CUT
Ft.
Mic Capes
with
Brown Alice
Ellis Pink
and sounds by Fritzwa
LOCAL CUT is a FREE quarterly music event curated by Willamette Week, showcasing the diverse and talented musicians and producers under the radar and on the rise within the Portland music scene.
Hosted by Holocene, LOCAL CUT shines a spotlight on an eclectic mix of hip-hop, R&B, soul and their extended genres. Expect up and coming MC’s and DJ’s, as well as rock bands with rhythm and creative individuals marching to the beat of their own drum machine.
Sponsored by MillerCoors.
Sunday, December 18
Holocene Portland
9 p.m. show / 8:30 p.m. doors
21+
FREE
Tender Loving Empire Winter Formal
Featuring music from:
Orquestra Pacifico Tropical
Maarquii
Rap Class
Dress to Impress!
Photobooth!
Holiday Cheer!
Full Bar!
Saturday December, 17th
8pm - 1am / 21+
$10 with a toy donation for Toy & Joy Makers
$20 without a toy ($10 goes to Toy & Joy Makers)
Tickets - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tender-loving-empire-winter-formal-tickets-29263014464
Alberta Abbey Ballroom
126 NE Alberta St
Portland, OR 97211
More info and toy donation recommendations from Portland Fire & Rescue Toy & Joy Makers here: http://www.toynjoymakers.org/
The Clay Compound is a cooperative ceramics studio in NE Portland comprised of more than a dozen local ceramic artists!
The Clay Compound invites you to our Open Studio & Holiday Sale!
Share the holiday season with a dozen of Portland's ceramic artists in
this three day event at our studio in NE Portland. We will be offering
demonstrations throughout the weekend of the many different techniques
used by our diverse group of members, as well as, refreshments and lots
of welcoming vibrations.
Opening Night // Friday December 9th // 6pm - 9pm
Saturday September 10th // 11am - 6pm
Sunday September 11th // 11am - 6pm
This is an excellent opportunity to tour our facility and to meet our
artists. Decorative and Functional Ceramic pieces will be available for
purchase from our wide variety of artists.
All forms of payment accepted // Cash - Card - Check
Please pass on this invite to anyone you feel would be interested in checking out the scene down at The Clay Compound.
The Clay Compound
5849 NE Simpson Street
Portland, Oregon 97218
Entrance located up the driveway. Look for signs and twinkle lights!
Via Car -- Easiest to access via NE 60th Ave.
NE Simpson is halfway between Killingsworth and Portland Hwy.
Street parking available on NE Simpson and NE 59th Ave.
Via Trimet -- #72 Busline
From the East & Southeast Portland use STOP # 3210
From the West, North, and NE Portland use STOP # 3146
at NE 60th Ave.
We recommend walking up NE 59th (and not 60th) for safety.
All Are Welcome.
Please note, our sales space and studio area are wheelchair accessible, but the kiln yard is not.
We hope to see you!
More information and demo schedule at https://www.facebook.com/events/1804841039789028/
The Clay Compound is a cooperative ceramics studio in NE Portland comprised of more than a dozen local ceramic artists!
The Clay Compound invites you to our Open Studio & Holiday Sale!
Share the holiday season with a dozen of Portland's ceramic artists in
this three day event at our studio in NE Portland. We will be offering
demonstrations throughout the weekend of the many different techniques
used by our diverse group of members, as well as, refreshments and lots
of welcoming vibrations.
Opening Night // Friday December 9th // 6pm - 9pm
Saturday September 10th // 11am - 6pm
Sunday September 11th // 11am - 6pm
This is an excellent opportunity to tour our facility and to meet our
artists. Decorative and Functional Ceramic pieces will be available for
purchase from our wide variety of artists.
All forms of payment accepted // Cash - Card - Check
Please pass on this invite to anyone you feel would be interested in checking out the scene down at The Clay Compound.
The Clay Compound
5849 NE Simpson Street
Portland, Oregon 97218
Entrance located up the driveway. Look for signs and twinkle lights!
Via Car -- Easiest to access via NE 60th Ave.
NE Simpson is halfway between Killingsworth and Portland Hwy.
Street parking available on NE Simpson and NE 59th Ave.
Via Trimet -- #72 Busline
From the East & Southeast Portland use STOP # 3210
From the West, North, and NE Portland use STOP # 3146
at NE 60th Ave.
We recommend walking up NE 59th (and not 60th) for safety.
All Are Welcome.
Please note, our sales space and studio area are wheelchair accessible, but the kiln yard is not.
We hope to see you!
More information and demo schedule at https://www.facebook.com/events/1804841039789028/
Celebrate the holiday season this December with Liminal’s immersive opera update of Fassbinder’s 1972 black comedy for the stage.
Audiences are invited to wander through a Fassbinder fantasia as Liminal combines performance art, video, and opera into a unique, immersive experience, a hybrid of theatre and gallery installation, of live performance and video.
In this (literally) biting social satire, Phoebe Zeitgeist is an alien agent sent to Earth to investigate human democracy in action. Unfortunately, Phoebe has a problem—she knows our language, but can’t figure out US. Then the vampires show up.
Featuring
Carissa Burkett (soprano) as Phoebe Zeitgeist
With Linda Austin, Evan Corcoran, Carla Grant, Wayne Haythorn, Eleanor Johnson, Don Kern, Alex Reagan, Danielle Ross, Todd Van Voris
Written by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Translated by Denis Calandra
Direction and Media Design by John Berendzen
Developed by John Berendzen, Evan Corcoran and the ensemble
Original music by John Berendzen and Carissa Burkett
Costume by Faerin Millington and Manot VonRocket
Crew Jared Lee, Sharon Porter, Nancy Novotny
Featuring Fassbinder zines by Going Place
One weekend only:
Thursday, December 8 at 7:30
Friday, December 9 at 7:30 and 9:30
Saturday, December 10 at 7:30 and 9:30
Sunday, December 11 at 5:30 and 7:30
TRIGGER WARNINGS: substance abuse, sexuality, semiotics, societal complacency, firearms, fetishes, structuralism, choking, privileged classes behaving badly, suicide, Hegel.
Purchase tickets here.
Overcup Press is bringing together local publishers and a few local authors to sign books this holiday season. A signed book is a great personalized gift. You'll find gifts for beer lovers, traveling tipplers, art fans, books for the tikes and toddlers in your life and more. The team at N.W.I.P.A. will help you select some gift-worthy bottles of beer and cider to round out your holiday shopping list. Stop by, buy a book, buy a bottle and raise a glass all in the name of getting things done this holiday season.
This event is age 21+
Meet the authors:
Jeff Alworth (The Beer Bible)
Niki Ganong (The Field Guide to Drinking in America)
Brian Yaeger (Oregon Breweries)
Steven Shomler (Portland Beer Stories)
Matt Wagner (The Tall Trees of Portland and art director for Gigantic Brewing label art)
Jon Abernathy (Bend Beer)
and more to be announced!
There will be also books by these publishers:
Overcup Press
Hazy Dell Press
and more
An evening for a special EYRST and XRAY.FM event. It'll be EmVKush playing records as the PDX Mandem and Neill Von Tally doing his live beat thang. The event will fresh off an announcement for a PDX Mandem's release on Moonshine Recordings and Neill's most notably Bone Music with the The Last Artful, Dodgr, the first single of which was premiered on Sway. It's going to be a night of Hip Hop and dubwise vibes. Artwork by Ritzy Sheens
Come through and be a part of the audience for live broadcasts of The Groove Theory Mixshow & Welcome to the Neighborhood on XRAY.FM. All of your favorite segments of the shows live on stage!
Say farewell to the O.G.ONE hosted & produced Groove Theory Mixshow as he does his final show on XRAY.FM in front of a live audience.
After that it's the first ever remote brodcast of Welcome to the Neighborhod with great music, live verses from some of Portland's best emcees and giveaways from three7 LIMITED
Then witness the collaboration of three of Portlands best producers & emcees as These? Blacks change the game!
Live brodcast from 7-10pm
These? Blacks 10pm
21+
$5 at the door
New Orleans Louisiana born & raised, DaiN is the foundation of the crew. His production and influence creates the space for these emcees to do what emcees do - bring BARS!
Portland native Jon Belz-King is one of the hardest working emcees in the city. Recently featured on the Team Backpack Portland Cypher, his lyrical dexterity puts him in the catagory as one of the best in the NW!
Kentucky & Ohio is where he began his craft, now he's one of the most sought after producers from the Rose City. Theory Hazit is a monster on production and intense with is rhyme skills - Watch Out!
EIGHT BELLS was formed in 2010 by Melynda Jackson and is a songwriting collaboration with bassist Haley Westeiner and drummer Chris VanHuffel. Based in Portland, Oregon, Eight Bells explores dark sonic realms with a blackened dissonance combining anguished screams with ethereal, haunting female vocals. Debut album, The Captain’s Daughter, was recorded by Billy Anderson and released in 2013 by Seventh Rule and on vinyl by The Flenser. In support of the album’s release, Eight Bells toured in support of Agalloch and SubRosa, appeared on the Fall Into Darkness festival and also performed at Project Pabst and Crucial Fest. Press for The Captain’s Daughter: Iron Hops “A+. ... a complex and genre-bending masterpiece.” Echoes and Dust "...head-bang inducing, ethereal and gloriously unpredictable.”
EIGHT BELLS’ sophomore album, Landless, is to be released in February 2016. This effort sees Eight Bells experience a change in personnel with drummer Rae Amitay, but once again join forces with legendary producer/engineer Billy Anderson. The material offers a definitive evolution of their sound, and will be released on vinyl/digital formats via Battleground Records and on tape via Tartarus Records. Eight Bells has also been chosen as direct support for Voivod and Vektor this February, where they will tour the Northeastern United States.
Jamais Jamais had their humble beginnings when Melynda flew in for a visit to Portland, OR from Portland, ME to visit sister, Erin. This time together in late 2010 included a week long recording session that resulted in two unreleased demo songs, Nothing and Winter Skies. They decided to call them selves Jamais Jamais (Jhah-may Jhah-may), meaning Never Never in French. To them their name chosen was a funny play on words. Its a double negative which equals a positive, like happy in a sad way and sad in a happy way, not unlike their music.
Melynda made a big move to Portland, OR a year later to see where the music with Erin could take them. After having a couple musician friends, Dave Smits and Alex Roy, play with them live and writing many songs, they joined forces with NW classically trained musicians Donna Potts and Camelia Nine. Two sisters from New England and two friends from the Pacific NW became Jamais Jamais as it is today. Their combined influences of folk, classical, soul, pop, doom and rock have played an integral part in the musical identity and unification of Jamais Jamais.
Are you looking for a job? Are you tired of sending resumes left and right and never getting an answer? If you are, dress in your best professional clothes, bring resumes and visit our Portland career fairs. You will have the opportunity to meet top employers and to interview for several positions during the course of the day, meeting the people who actually make the hiring decisions. You will save a lot of time since there will be no need to craft a customized personal statement for each company you visit: You’ll be able to tell them why you wish to work for them, and you’ll have the chance to sell yourself.
National Career Fairs employers send their managers to carry out onsite interviews. Don’t wait for someone to call you for an interview. Sign up for our next career fair and give off a first impression that makes a lasting career.
Norwegian artist and writer Jenny Hval has developed her distinct take on intimate sound since the release of her debut album in 2006. For her last two solo albums, 2013's Innocence Is Kinky and 2015's Apocalypse, girl, Hval's debut for Sacred Bones, she has received thoughtful and widespread international acclaim for her fascinating voice, singular delivery and markedly non-traditional arrangements which incorporate elements of poetry, prose writing, performance art, and film. The New York Times defines her writing as "taking a scalpel to the subjects of gender politics and sexuality." Hval has eloquently brought to light issues of both male and female gaze, which for years had been swept under the rug and/or denied all together.
Hval's conceptual takes on collective and individual gender identities and sociopolitical constructs landed Apocalypse, girl on dozens of year end lists and compelled writers everywhere to grapple with the age-old, yet previously unspoken, question: What is Soft Dick Rock After touring for a year and earning her second Nordic Prize nomination, as any perfectionist would, Hval immediately went back into the studio to continue her work with acumen noise producer Lasse Marhaug, with whom she co-produces here on Blood Bitch. Her new effort is in many respects a complete 180º from her last in subject matter, execution and production. It is her most focused, but the lens is filtered through a gaze which the viewer least expects.
Statement from the artist:
Blood Bitch is an investigation of blood. Blood that is shed naturally. The purest and most powerful, yet most trivial, and most terrifying blood: Menstruation. The white and red toilet roll chain which ties together the virgins, the whores, the mothers, the witches, the dreamers, and the lovers.
Blood Bitch is also a fictitious story, fed by characters and images from horror and exploitation films of the '70s. With that language, rather than smart, modern social commentary, I found I could tell a different story about myself and my own time: a poetic diary of modern transience and transcendence.
There is a character in this story that is a vampire Orlando, traveling through time and space. But there is also a story here of a 35-year old artist stuck in a touring loop, and wearing a black wig. She is always up at night, jet lagged, playing late night shows - and by day she is quietly resting over an Arp Odyssey synthesizer while a black van drives her around Europe and America.
So this is my most fictional and most personal album. It's also the first album where I've started reconnecting with the goth and metal scene I started out playing in many years ago, by remembering the drony qualities of Norwegian Black Metal. It's an album of vampires, lunar cycles, sticky choruses, and the smell of warm leaves and winter.
Beautifully tackling loss and acceptance in a nutshell, WL's newest tune and accompanying visuals have the power to bring on mental calm and necessary contemplation. It's soothing reel of waves pairs perfectly with Misty Mary's ethereal vocals, creating a layers of hazy, intrinsic texture.
"Disintegrate" comes off of WL's sophomore album titled Light Years, due out on the 28th of this month on XRAY Records. The composition of the album is a point of interest, as it was originally intented to be performed live alongside 'Gandahar,' a French surrealist animation by Rene Laloux. WL decided to team up with various local artists in creating their own visual element to Light Years, using stop motion animation, stereoscopic photography and 3D point cloud scanning as some of the mediums and techniques.
A screening of Light Years the film will be at Laurelhurst Theater on October 26th, with their album release show taking place on November 11th at the Spare Room.
Guitarist and keyboardist Michael Yun spoke on "Disintegrate" to the Grey Estates, who premiered the track just last week:
'Disintegrate' is a song about loss. It's a goodbye with no goodbye, it's a possibility that becomes impossible. It's when the weight of the ocean is over you and you give in to it. The video is a simple meditation on the movement of waves. It's a single shot, from a single point with altered time. We filmed hours of footage in both slow motion and time lapse, but this continuous shot just fit the feeling perfectly. Words by The Deli Magazine
$5, 21 and over